Stuart Sutherland (Author of Irrationality)

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Stuart Sutherland

Born

in The United Kingdom

March 26, 1927

Died

November 08, 1998

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British Psychologist Norman Stuart Sutherland (26 March 1927 â€� 8 November 1998), always known professionally as Stuart Sutherland, was a British psychologist and writer.

Sutherland was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, before going to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology. He stayed at Oxford for his DPhil which he took in zoology under the supervision of J. Z. Young. He held a lecturing post at Oxford before moving in 1964 to the recently opened University of Sussex as the founding Professor and head of its Laboratory of Experimental Psychology; with the young colleagues he appointed, he rapidly built an international reputation for Sussex in this field.

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	Irrationality 3.91 avg rating — 1,627 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Breakdown: A Personal Crisis and a Personal Dilemma 3.77 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1976 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	RTL Modeling with SystemVerilog for Simulation and Synthesis: Using SystemVerilog for ASIC and FPGA Design 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Mechanisms of Animal Discrimination Learning it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1971 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The willingness to change oneâ€™s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.”
― Stuart Sutherland, Irrationality

tags: intelligence, weakness

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“To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.”
― Stuart Sutherland, Irrationality

tags: philosophy, science

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“The effects of conformity on beliefs and attitudes are the more injurious because people tend to associate with others who have similar beliefs to themselves. ... the only way to substantiate a belief is to try to disprove it. But because like mixes with like, people are rarely exposed to counter-arguments to their more deeply held convictions, let alone to counter-evidence. Their beliefs conform to those of their associates: hence, there is little possibility of eliminating persistent errors.”
― Stuart Sutherland, Irrationality

tags: conformity, irrationality

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